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Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Mar 19 7:21pm | Replies (34)
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I started prednisone in April for PMR. Once I had tapered to 9mg I found reducing by 0.5 mg once a fortnight was better than 1mg a month.
I never had wrist pain until recently, and then never considered it was part of PMR, although the pain does improve after midday.
Today I had a neurological test for carpal tunnel but that isn’t the problem.
I was concerned it could be arthritis but the neurologist believes it is PMR which makes more sense. He also said medicine is not black or white which I have learnt with PMR!
I will see my specialist in Dec.
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Wrist pain and finger muscle spasms can be somewhat common with PMR. It can usually be controlled by delaying further tapering until it stops, or possibly increasing a bit until it stops. Depends to some extent how much (if any) pain you are willing to tolerate. Wrist pain was my last symptom to disappear on 30mg. Now have tapered to 15 with no pain. Can be a long journey. Good luck.